 Kevin Grant Chief Executive Officer Wells Fargo Securities Research & Economics Specialty Finance Conference May 20, 2014 Investment Outlook Exhibit 99.1 |
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 CYS Overview Focus on Cost Efficiency Target Assets Agency Residential Mortgage Backed Securities A Real Estate Investment Trust Formed in January 2006 Ample Financing Sources Financing lines with 38 lenders Swap agreements with 18 counterparties Dividend Policy Self managed: highly scalable Senior Management Kevin Grant, CEO, President, Chairman Frances Spark, CFO Company intends to distribute all or substantially all of its REIT taxable income 3 |
 Significant Cheapening of Agency MBS Market 15 Year: Hedged vs. Unhedged 15 Year Fixed Hedged with Swaps: April 2009 – May 2014 15 Year Hedged (i) 15 Year Unhedged (ii) Borrow Short Invest Long May 15, 2014 4 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 Source: Bloomberg. Note: Spreads calculated as: (i) 15 year CC Index = 50% 4 year swap, and (ii) 15 year Current Coupon Index |
 Significant Cheapening of Agency MBS Market 30 Year: Hedged vs. Unhedged 30 Year Fixed Hedged with Swaps: April 2009 – May 2014 Borrow Short Invest Long 30 Year Hedged 30 Year Unhedged May 15, 2014 5 0.75 1.25 1.75 2.25 2.75 3.25 3.75 4.25 4.75 5.25 Source: Bloomberg Note: Spread calculated as: (i) 30 year CC Index - 90% 5 year swap |
 Volatility in the Cap/Floor Markets Hit a Low in July 2013 30 Yr MBS - 15 Yr MBS Spread 7 Yr Cap/Floor Implied Vol November 2012 – May 2014 April 2012 – May 2014 30 Year MBS Cheapened Meaningfully Relative to 15 Year MBS 5 Year Swap vs. Fed Funds January 2005 – May 2014 Yield Curve Creates positive carry Very low cost of financing Good ROE Hedge flexibility very important Fed still fighting deflation 30 Year MBS Now Priced for Operation Taper and Tightening Monetary Policy 2015 May 15, 2014 May 15, 2014 Source: Bloomberg 6 May 15, 2014 -1.00 -0.50 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 1.10 30.0 35.0 40.0 45.0 50.0 55.0 60.0 65.0 70.0 75.0 |
 Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, March 19, 2014 Actual Economic Performance: Sluggish vs. Fed Projections 7 |
 Appropriate Timing of Policy Firming Ten Year Treasury August 2011 - March 2014 and Implied Projection • Creates Significant Headwinds for the Economy • Housing Will Struggle • Corporate Interest Expense will rise +25 -25 Appropriate Pace of Policy Firming Target Fed Funds Rate at Year End Overview of FOMC Participants Assessments of Appropriate Monetary Policy Can the Economy Withstand The Implied Path of 10 Year UST? • Forward Rate Guidance is the Fed’s Most Impactful Tool • Appropriate Timing and Pace will drive the Yield Curve 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 0.00 2014 2015 Longer Run % % Source: Federal Reserve March 2014 Forecast, Bloomberg, CYS 2016 Transition to a Normalized Yield Curve: Will the Fed Push Out Forward Rate Guidance? 8 1 13 2 2014 2015 2016 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 |
 2014-15 Fed Voters: New Perspectives, Changing Outlooks Powell Source: federalreserve.gov, Barclays, Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Indiana University, Marketwatch, Thomson Reuters, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, Boston Globe, Businessweek, Newsweek, Washington Post, CNBC. Dallas: Fisher Minneapolis: Kocherlakota Philadelphia: Plosser Hawkish Dovish Neutral 2014 Voters Fed governors are appointed by the president and subject to Senate confirmation. District bank Fed presidents are chosen by their individual banks’ Boards of Directors with a degree of oversight from the Federal Reserve Board. Raskin’s Successor Cleveland: Mester Board of Governors 2015 Voters New York: Dudley Chicago: Evans Richmond: Lacker Atlanta: Lockhart San Francisco: Williams Fischer Brainard Stein’s Successor New York: Dudley 9 Yellen Tarullo |
 Central Banks: Decidedly More Accommodative - Focus on Global Deflation Risk Draghi EU Hawkish Dovish Neutral Xiaochuan China Xiaochuan China Tombini Brazil Tombini Brazil Australia Stevens Australia Stevens New Zealand Wheeler New Zealand Wheeler Kuroda Japan Canada Poloz Rajan India Kuroda Japan Carney UK Yellin USA 10 |
 GSE Reform Headway Legislative Level of GSE Credit Risk Proposal Government Involvement Implication Sharing Status Corker-Warner Bill Limited: Only under catastrophic scenarios where losses on a pool of mortgages exceeds 10% Completely wound down over 5 years 10% first-loss piece is sold to private entities Corker-Warner is under committee discussion but not yet put to vote. Either one of these may become the front runner from the Senate side but both will likely have private capital in the first loss place with several mechanisms for risk sharing Crapo-Johnson Bill Unclear: reforms the FHA/VA but maintains explicit government guarantee of all FHA/VA insured loans Not yet addressed. May add GSE portion in coming months None currently but may resemble Corker-Warner when the GSE portion is included PATH Act Very limited: dissolves the GSEs completely and reduces the scope of the FHA/VA guarantee Placed into receivership and completely liquidated with Initially, a 10% risk-sharing program on new GSE and FHA business, although private market securitization is intended eventually to replace GSEs No news. In early 2013, the Path Act seemed to be the clear front-runner on the House side. The final housing finance reform, if it happens, could be a compromise between the PATH Act and whatever comes out of the Senate Delaney-Carney-Himes Limited: Ginnie Mae is required to provide an explicit government guarantee once the 5% risk slice is eroded when one of the private monoline insurers defaults GSEs will be slowly wound down and eventually converted into private reinsurers with limited capacities to take on mortgage credit risk 5% first-loss piece on each new Ginnie Mae securitization, as well as a 10% pro-rata risk slice on the top 95% of each Ginnie Mae securitization Source: Barclays 11 |
 Economic Recovery Below Normal Pace U.S. Regular Conventional Gas Price $ per gal Updated: 2014-04-21 Capacity Utilization: Manufacturing Updated: 2014-05-15 Civilian Unemployment Rate Updated: 2014-05-02 CPI-U All Items, Core Updated: 2014-05-15 Total Nonfarm Private Payroll Employment Updated: 2014-04-30 Total Unemployed + All Marginally Attached + Total Employed Part Time for Economic Reasons Updated: 2014-05-02 Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 12 |
 Housing Finance Has Not Rebounded Source: CoreLogic, FHFA, S&P, Bloomberg, Barclays Research, National Association of Realtors, US Census Bureau, MBA, Inside Mortgage Finance Share of Government Guaranteed Mortgages 1990 – present New and Existing Homes Months of Supply January 2000 –- December 2013 Home Ownership Rate March 1990 – present 13 |
 Mortgage Market Shrinkage Likely to Continue Residential Mortgage Debt Decline Driven By: Source: FRB, Freddie Mac Mortgage Debt Outstanding 2007 -2013 Mortgage Debt Outstanding Growth Rate 0.00% 0.50% 1.00% 9.75 10.00 10.25 10.50 10.75 11.00 11.25 11.50 1.50% 2.00% 3.50% 4.00% 4.50% 0.50% 2.00% 1.50% 1.00% 9.50 8.75 9.00 9.25 Single Family Mortgage Origination Volume 1992 – 2014E 1992 1997 2002 2007 2012 2.0T 1.9T Refinance Originations Home Purchase Originations 1,000 0 2,000 3,000 4,000 14 1. Home prices now reset lower 2. Delevering Consumers/Homeowners 3. Psychology of lower leverage 4. Low volume of new and existing home sales 5. All-cash home purchase transactions, and higher downpayments 6. Scheduled principal payments 7. High percentage of cash-in refi’s versus cash-out refi’s. 8. QM Rules Restrictive |
 Economics of Forward Purchase Source: Bloomberg, May 16, 2014 15 |
 1 As of 3/31/14 $ in 000’s Fair Value of Total Agency RMBS and U.S. Treasuries: $13,307,735 CYS Common Stock Dividends September 2009 – March 2014 CYS Agency RMBS and U.S. Treasury Portfolio Portfolio Composition and Dividends 16 15 Year Fixed Rate 48% 20 Year Fixed Rate 1% 30 Year Fixed Rate 24% Hybrid ARMs 15% U.S. Treasury Securities 12% $0.00 $0.10 $0.20 $0.30 $0.40 $0.50 $0.60 $0.70 $0.80 $0.90 $1.00 1 Note: the December 2012 dividend was composed of $0.40 quarterly cash dividend, and $0.52 special cash dividend. |
 CYS Agency RMBS and U.S. Treasury Portfolio Characteristics* Portfolio Characteristics Face Value Fair Value Weighted Average Asset Type (in thousands) Cost/Face Fair Value/Face Yield (1) Coupon CPR (2) 15 Year Fixed Rate $ 6,227,169 $ 6,432,461 $ 102.58 $ 103.30 2.31% 3.13% 5.6% 20 Year Fixed Rate 81,294 87,371 103.04 107.48 1.94% 4.50% 11.5% 30 Year Fixed Rate 3,149,975 3,263,950 103.24 103.62 3.32% 3.96% 4.1% Hybrid ARMs (3) 1,946,543 1,986,641 103.55 102.06 1.98% 2.56% 9.5% U.S. Treasury Securities 1,550,000 1,537,312 99.61 99.18 1.68% 1.50% NA Total 17 * As of 3/31/14 (1) This is a forward yield and is calculated based on the cost basis of the security at March 31, 2014. (2) CPR is a method of expressing the prepayment rate for a mortgage pool that assumes that a constant fraction of the remaining principal is prepaid each month or year. Specifically, the constant prepayment rate is an annualized version of the prior three month prepayment rate for those bonds held at March 31, 2014. Securities with no prepayment history are excluded from this calculation. (3) The weighted average months to reset of our Hybrid ARM portfolio was 63.2 at March 31, 2014. Months to reset is the number of months remaining before the fixed rate on a Hybrid ARM becomes a variable rate. At the end of the fixed period, the variable rate will be determined by the margin and the pre-specified caps of the Hybrid ARM and will reset annually. $ 12,954,981 $ 13,307,735 $ 102.53 $ 102.72 2.43% 3.06% 6.1% |
 (1) Drop Income is a component of our net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments on our consolidated statements of operations, and is therefore excluded from Core Earnings. (2) Core Earnings is defined as net income (loss) available to common shares excluding net realized gain (loss) on investments, net unrealized gain (loss) on investments, net realized gain (loss) on termination of swap and cap contracts and net unrealized gain (loss) on swap and cap contracts. Financial Information 18 Drop income per common share (diluted) (1) Core Earnings per common share (diluted) (2) Income Statement Data Three Months Ended (In thousands, except per share numbers) 3/31/2014 12/31/2013 Total interest income 84,367 91,743 Interest expense 28,346 32,814 Net interest income 56,021 58,929 Other income (loss): Net realized gain (loss) on investments 16,670 (22,650) Net unrealized gain (loss) on investments 89,234 (167,671) Net realized gain (loss) on termination of swap and cap contracts (9,323) (10,891) Net unrealized gain (loss) on swap and cap contracts (16,240) 54,633 Other income 119 - Total other income (loss) 80,460 (146,579) Total operating expenses 4,214 Net income (loss) Dividends on preferred stock Net income (loss) available to common shares Net income (loss) per common share basic & diluted $ 0.07 $ 0.07 $ 0.31 Distributions per common share $ 0.32 $ 0.32 Non-GAAP Measure/Reconciliation (in 000's) NET INCOME (LOSS) AVAILABLE TO COMMON SHARES $ 125,484 $ (97,067) Net realized (gain) loss on investments (16,670) 22,650 Net unrealized (gain) loss on investments (89,234) 167,671 Net realized (gain) loss on termination of swap and cap contracts 9,323 10,891 Net unrealized (gain) loss on swap and cap contracts 16,240 (54,633) Core Earnings $ 45,143 $ 49,512 $ 0.28 $ 0.78 $ (0.59) 5,794 $ 130,687 $ (91,864) (5,203) (5,203) $ 125,484 $ (97,067) $ $ |
 The table above includes calculations of the Company’s Agency RMBS and U.S. Treasury Securities portfolio (“Debt Securities”) Financial Information (in thousands) Three Months Ended Key Balance Sheet Metrics March 31, 2014 December 31, 2013 Average settled Debt Securities (1) $12,472,238 $13,024,294 Average total Debt Securities (2) $13,454,972 $14,293,267 Average repurchase agreements (3) $10,867,627 $11,384,159 Average Debt Securities liabilities $11,850,361 $12,653,132 Average stockholders' equity (5) $1,861,121 $1,896,360 Average common shares outstanding (6) 161,831 163,850 Leverage ratio (at period end) (7) 6.32:1 6.97:1 Key Performance Metrics* Average yield on settled Debt Securities (8) 2.71% 2.82% Average yield on total Debt Securities including Drop Income 2.85% 2.93% Average cost of funds and hedge (10) 1.04% 1.15% Adjusted average cost of funds and hedge 0.96% 1.04% Interest rate spread net of hedge (12) 1.67% 1.67% Interest rate spread net of hedge including Drop Income 1.89% 1.89% Operating expense ratio (14) 1.25% 0.89% 19 1) The average settled Debt Securities is calculated by averaging the month end cost basis of settled Debt Securities during the period. 2) The average total Debt Securities is calculated by averaging the month end cost basis of total Debt Securities during the period. 3) The average repurchase agreements are calculated by averaging the month end repurchase agreements balance during the period. 4) The average Debt Securities liabilities are calculated by adding the average month end repurchase agreements balance plus average unsettled Debt Securities during the period. 5) The average stockholders' equity is calculated by averaging the month end stockholders' equity during the period. 6) The average common shares outstanding are calculated by averaging the daily common shares outstanding during the period. 7) The leverage ratio is calculated by dividing (i) the Company's repurchase agreements balance plus payable for securities purchased minus receivable for securities sold by (ii) stockholders' equity. 8) The average yield on Debt Securities for the period is calculated by dividing total interest income by average settled Debt Securities. 9) The average yield on total Debt Securities including Drop Income for the period is calculated by dividing total interest income plus Drop Income by average total Debt Securities. 10) The average cost of funds and hedge for the period is calculated by dividing interest expense by average repurchase agreements. 11) The adjusted average cost of funds and hedge for the period is calculated by dividing interest expense by average Debt Securities liabilities. 12) The interest rate spread net of hedge for the period is calculated by subtracting average cost of funds and hedge from average yield on settled Debt Securities. 13) The interest rate spread net of hedge including Drop Income for the period is calculated by subtracting adjusted average cost of funds and hedge from average yield on total Debt Securities including Drop Income. 14) The operating expense ratio for the period is calculated by dividing operating expenses by average stockholders' equity. * All percentages are annualized. (4) (9) (11) (13) |
 Investment Outlook Kevin Grant Chief Executive Officer Wells Fargo Securities Research & Economics Specialty Finance Conference May 20, 2014 |